Nato’s senior military commanders say the alliance possesses overwhelming conventional military superiority over Russia and is developing detailed plans to defeat any attack on its territory, as Russian sabotage, drone incursions and
Year after year, global climate meetings take place in one part of the world or another, ever since 1995, with the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP) having taken place in November
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Last week, speaking at a House Republican retreat, President Trump declared with characteristic certainty: “The world respects us right now more than they have ever respected us before… the United States has
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While the world watches the escalating conflict between Iran, the United States, and Israel, one figure seems to be quietly capitalizing on the situation: Vladimir Putin. Moscow has been accused of providing
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In one of Abu Dhabi’s largest malls, martial Emirati music echoed across near-empty corridors. Shop assistants folded trousers with listless efficiency while cleaners mopped floors, their movements almost ceremonial against a backdrop
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United States President Donald Trump may be confronting a dangerous strategic dilemma as the war with Iran enters its third week, with analysts warning that the conflict could trap his administration in
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by A Special Correspondent in Geneva Two days ago the defamation case against Father Cyril Gamini, a spokesman for Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, came before court and was postponed for another month. When
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by Durga Velayudham The Strait of Hormuz has once again emerged as the Rubicon in Donald Trump’s confrontation with Iran, a perilous threshold across which the contemporary superpower system appears increasingly inclined
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“Modern conflicts are increasingly shaped not by firepower alone but by intelligence superiority, where information, timing, and surprise determine strategic outcomes.” Modern wars rarely begin with the sound of gunfire. They start
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The story of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee in 1939 remains one of the most cited lessons in the law of neutrality. During her commerce-raiding mission in the South Atlantic
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Renewed hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah have shaken Lebanon’s fragile stability, threatening to drag the country into sustained conflict long after the broader Iran war subsides. The violence, a direct spillover from
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March 2026 has seen an unprecedented surge in attacks across the Eastern Mediterranean and the South Caucasus, with Iran and its proxies reportedly striking key military and energy targets in Azerbaijan, Türkiye,
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Global trade flows are more entangled with China than ever before. A recent survey of international import patterns shows that 128 countries now source at least 10% of their goods imports from
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Ali Larijani is a figure of stark contradictions. He is at once a philosopher deeply versed in Kant and a politician accused of orchestrating some of the bloodiest crackdowns in modern Iranian
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For more than a decade, West Germany allegedly transferred enormous sums to Israel to fund its nuclear program, a secret uncovered in investigations reported by Haaretz. Between 1961 and 1973, Bonn provided
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As the world watches tensions flare in the Strait of Hormuz, the economic consequences of geopolitical brinkmanship are becoming impossible to ignore. Iran’s recent maneuvers to restrict shipping in this vital waterway
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